"The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace."

"You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that."

"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."

"The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game."

"I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed."

"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."

"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work."

"There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it."